COMPLETE CLASSICS UNABRIDGED View our catalogue online at n-ab.com/cat For further assistance, please contact: In the UK: Naxos AudioBooks, Select Music & Video Distribution, 3 Wells Place, Redhill, Surrey RH1 3SL. Tel: 01737 645600. In the USA: Naxos of America Inc., 1810 Columbia Ave., Suite 28, Franklin, TN 37064. Tel: +1 615 771 9393 In Australia: Select Audio/Visual Distribution Pty. Ltd., PO Box 691, Brookvale, NSW 2100. Tel: +61 299481811 George Eliot Middlemarch ReadRead byby JulietJuliet StevensonStevenson 1 CD 1 1 Middlemarch by George Eliot – Prelude 3:51 2 Book 1: Miss Brooke – Chapter 1 5:58 3 And how should Dorothea not marry? 5:18 4 Early in the day Dorothea had returned… 5:08 5 Celia felt a little hurt. 6:05 6 Chapter 2 5:33 7 This was the first time that Mr Casaubon… 5:39 8 Dorothea felt hurt. Mr Casaubon would think… 4:38 9 ‘Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution...’ 4:01 10 Chapter 3 6:57 11 Certainly he seemed more and more bent on making… 4:45 12 It had now entered Dorothea’s mind… 3:37 13 Dorothea checked herself suddenly… 6:18 14 Dorothea was in the best temper now… 7:22 Total time on CD 1: 75:18 2 CD 2 1 Chapter 4 5:17 2 ‘It is very painful,’ said Dorothea… 5:32 3 She bethought herself now of the condemned… 5:02 4 ‘Well, but Casaubon, now. There is no hurry...’ 4:25 5 Chapter 5 5:41 6 Now she would be able to devote herself... 6:54 7 The next day, at luncheon, the butler... 5:39 8 Perhaps Celia had never turned so pale before. 6:37 9 Chapter 6 3:34 10 ‘I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here,’ she said... 4:28 11 Mr Brooke again winced inwardly... 5:12 12 In less than an hour, Mrs Cadwalladar… 5:21 13 ‘Well, Humphrey doesn’t know yet...’ 4:43 14 With such a mind, active as phosphorus... 5:09 Total time on CD 2: 73:42 3 CD 3 1 Chapter 7 5:24 2 Mr Brooke had no doubt on that point... 5:36 3 Chapter 8 5:29 4 Sir James paused. He did not usually find it easy... 3:40 5 ‘But, my dear Chettam, why should I…’ 4:24 6 Chapter 9 6:35 7 Mr Casaubon led the way thither. 7:46 8 Dorothea sank into silence on the way back... 7:11 9 When their backs were turned… 6:29 10 Chapter 10 5:53 11 Certainly this affair of his marriage… 5:31 12 The season was mild enough to encourage... 5:00 13 Already, as Miss Brooke passed out of the dining-room... 6:57 Total time on CD 3: 76:04 4 CD 4 1 ‘But we were talking of physic...’ 6:54 2 Chapter 11 6:22 3 Lydgate could not be long in Middlemarch… 4:26 4 ‘Mamma,’ said Rosamond… 6:26 5 ‘But how came you to stay out so late, my dear?’ 6:44 6 Chapter 12 4:36 7 Mrs Waule had to defer her answer… 6:39 8 Before Mr Featherstone’s cough was quiet… 5:03 9 ‘So, sir, you’ve been paying ten per cent...’ 6:51 10 Fred, in spite of his irritation, had kindness enough... 6:40 11 ‘But,’ she added, dimpling, ‘it is very different…’ 6:11 12 Mr Lydgate was rather late this morning... 6:17 13 Thus, in riding home… 5:37 Total time on CD 4: 78:55 5 CD 5 1 Book 2: Old and Young ­­– Chapter 13 4:40 2 One of Lydgate’s gifts was a voice habitually deep… 5:09 3 ‘What I desire,’ Mr Bulstrode continued... 5:00 4 To point out other people’s errors was a duty… 5:48 5 Mr Bulstrode paused a little before he answered. 4:54 6 Chapter 14 6:39 7 The deep-veined hands fingered many bank-notes... 5:48 8 Mary sat down again, and resumed her work. 5:57 9 Mary looked up with some roguishness at Fred... 5:37 10 Chapter 15 4:37 11 He had been left an orphan… 6:24 12 Lydgate did not mean to be one of those failures... 5:02 13 There was fascination in the hope… 5:48 14 He was certainly a happy fellow at this time... 4:26 Total time on CD 5: 75:59 6 CD 6 1 As to women, he had once already been drawn... 5:54 2 To have approached Laure with any suit… 4:09 3 Chapter 16 5:50 4 ‘Hang your reforms!’ said Mr Chichely. 6:56 5 ‘You will let me hear some music tonight, I hope.’ 7:30 6 Everything looked blooming and joyous… 7:36 7 As he threw down his book, stretched his legs... 6:46 8 Chapter 17 7:00 9 ‘A mother is never partial,’ said Mr Farebrother… 7:20 10 ‘Your scheme is a good deal more difficult…’ 7:35 11 Chapter 18 6:36 12 And now, when the question of voting had come... 3:33 Total time on CD 6: 76:54 7 CD 7 1 Lydgate was late in setting out... 6:02 2 Dr Sprague said at once bluntly to the group… 5:46 3 Every one now sat down, Mr Bulstrode presiding... 7:06 4 Chapter 19 4:58 5 ‘He is not my uncle. I tell you...’ 5:49 6 Chapter 20 5:38 7 Not that this inward amazement of Dorothea’s… 5:39 8 In their conversation before marriage... 4:55 9 These characteristics, fixed and unchangeable… 6:32 10 The excessive feeling manifested… 4:21 11 Dorothea rose to leave the table… 3:59 12 Chapter 21 7:14 13 ‘Oh, there is a great deal in the feeling for art...’ 6:01 Total time on CD 7: 74:07 8 CD 8 1 There was a new light, but still a mysterious light... 7:37 2 Chapter 22 5:58 3 They found Naumann painting industriously... 6:33 4 Naumann was all apologies in asking her to stand... 5:52 5 Dorothea, who had not been made aware… 5:39 6 Will again feared that he had gone too far... 6:08 7 Will was not quite contented… 6:39 8 Book 3: Waiting for Death – Chapter 23 6:05 9 The Garths were very fond of Fred… 6:24 10 Since it occurred, a change had come over Fred’s sky... 6:22 11 Most of those who saw Fred riding out… 4:59 12 Fred was subtle, and did not tell his friends... 6:35 13 Chapter 24 3:11 Total time on CD 8: 78:08 9 CD 9 1 Mr Garth was not at the office... 6:03 2 ‘Now let us go through that once more’ said Mrs Garth... 7:16 3 ‘Are Letty and Ben your only pupils now, Mrs Garth?’ 7:05 4 Fred turned round and hurried out of the room... 6:37 5 Chapter 25 5:40 6 ‘Any man may be unfortunate, Mary...’ 5:53 7 She took a candle into another large parlour... 6:17 8 Chapter 26 5:53 9 When Mr Vincy came home he was very angry… 5:52 10 Chapter 27 6:08 11 She never left Fred’s side… 6:30 12 Lydgate found it more and more agreeable… 4:34 13 Mr Ned smiled nervously… 5:38 Total time on CD 9: 79:35 10 CD 10 1 Chapter 28 5:05 2 In the first minutes when Dorothea looked out... 4:24 3 Dorothea’s eyes also were turned up to her husband’s face... 3:50 4 Chapter 29 7:10 5 To this mental estate mapped out… 6:08 6 ‘We will, if you please, say no more on this subject...’ 6:59 7 Chapter 30 5:25 8 ‘You will not mind this sombre light,’ said Dorothea... 5:55 9 When he was gone, Dorothea’s tears gushed forth... 5:55 10 Chapter 31 6:03 11 ‘You don’t mean that there is anything between...’ 4:50 12 ‘You would not give your heart to a man...’ 4:47 13 Solomon’s Proverbs, I think, have omitted… 4:33 14 Miss Vincy was alone, and blushed so deeply… 5:20 Total time on CD 10: 76:34 11 CD 11 1 Chapter 32 5:00 2 But some of the visitors alighted… 5:26 3 Old Featherstone no sooner caught sight of these... 5:02 4 Their exit was hastened by their seeing… 5:11 5 ‘I don’t mind if I have a slice of that ham...’ 4:38 6 ‘I shall take a mere mouthful of ham…’ 5:01 7 Chapter 33 4:09 8 To-night he had not snapped… 4:53 9 He let his hand fall, and for the first time... 6:16 10 Book 4: Three Love Problems – Chapter 34 4:12 11 However, the three mourning-coaches… 5:01 12 ‘I shall not look any more,’ said Celia... 5:03 13 Dorothea felt a shock of alarm... 5:41 14 Chapter 35 3:57 15 But in the morning all the ordinary currents… 6:18 Total time on CD 11: 75:55 12 CD 12 1 But the entrance of the lawyer and the two brothers... 4:55 2 The small bequests came first… 4:34 3 Mr Vincy was the first to speak… 5:23 4 Mr Joshua Rigg, in fact, appeared to trouble… 5:05 5 Chapter 36 6:01 6 This was a not infrequent procedure with Mr Vincy..